PRINTED FOR THE CAXTON CLUB BY
R. R DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
AT THE LAKESIDE PRESS, CHICAGO
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With a Genuine Leaf Printed by W. Caxton preserved at end.
44 CAXTON (William), by E. Gordon Duff.
With 25 full-plates of facsimiles of specimens of his work, etc.
4to, orig. boards, uncut. Chicago, The Caxton Club, 1905. (see illustration, Plate No. [XVII.])
The above is one of a few special copies, each of which contains A GENUINE ORIGINAL LEAF (contained in a pocket at end), from a copy of the First Edition of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," printed by Caxton, and formerly in Lord Ashburnham's Library, having been purchased for this purpose by the Caxton Club.
The Author has compiled an extremely interesting Biography of the First English Printer, avoiding, as far as possible, the merely mechanical bibliographical details (which have been relegated in an abridged form to an Appendix), and has confined himself to a more general description of the Books, especially of those not hitherto correctly or fully described, and is able to add to the Bibliographical List some discoveries and corrections, since Blades published his great work in 1861.